Author: Evelyn Gray WhitingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Farmerette
Author: Evelyn Gray WhitingThe Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Author: Zachary Michael JackPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612492185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and literature. In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Zachary Michael Jack follows the fascinating story of the girl who became a regional and national legend: from Donna Reed to Laura Ingalls Wilder, from Elly May Clampett to The Dukes of Hazzard's Catherine Bach, from Lawrence Welk's TV sweethearts to the tragic heroines of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres. From Amish farm women bloggers, to Missouri homesteaders and seed-savers, to rural Nebraskan graphic novelists and, ultimately, to the seven generations of entrepreneurial Iowan farm women who have animated his own family since before the Civil War, Jack shines new documentary light on the symbol of American virtue, energy, and ingenuity that rural writer Martha Foote Crow once described as the "great rural reserve of initiating force, sane judgment and spiritual drive." Packed with dozens of interviews, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter covers the history and the renaissance of agrarian women on both sides of the fence. Giving equal consideration to both agriculture's time-tested rural and small-town Farm Bureaus, 4-H, and FFA training grounds as well as to the eco-innovations generated by the region's rising woman-powered "agro-polises" such as Chicago, the author crafts a lively, easy-to-read cultural and social history, exploring the pioneering role today's female agriculturalists play in the emergence of farmers' markets, urban farms, community-supported agriculture, and the new "back-to-the-land" and "do-it-yourself" movements. For all those whose lives have been graced by the enduring strength of American farm women, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter offers a groundbreaking examination of a dynamic American icon.
Fruits of Victory
Author: Elaine F. WeissPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612343996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter--a generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the "farmerette" of the Woman's Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man's job on the home front during World War I. From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation. These women, from all social and economic strata, lived together in communal camps and did what was considered "men's work": plowing fields, driving tractors, planting, harvesting, and hauling lumber. The Land Army was a civilian enterprise organized and financed by women. It insisted on fair labor practices and pay equal to male laborers' wages for its workers and taught women not only agricultural skills but also leadership and management techniques. Despite their initial skepticism, farmers became the WLA's loudest champions, and the farmerette was celebrated as an icon of American women's patriotism and pluck. The WLA's short but spirited life foreshadowed some of the most significant social issues of the twentieth century: women's changing roles, the problem of class distinctions in a democracy, and the physiological and psychological differences between men and women. The dramatic story of the WLA is vividly retold here using long-buried archival material, allowing a fascinating chapter of America's World War I experience to be rediscovered.
Fruits of Victory
Author: Elaine F. WeissPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597972738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The women who kept the farms going while the soldiers were Over There
The Great Leveler
Author: Surendra VyasPublisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1636335616
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A game-changing technology for electric vehicles, A patent infringement lawsuit inspired by college rivalry, A young heir yearning to prove her mettle. Would a startup be able to use its patents to disrupt the technology commercialization plans for a large firm? #knowledgefiction – Introducing a new genre of fiction writing aimed at explaining a business or technology topic through a story set up in contemporary times. This edition focusses on IP awareness.
State Service
Author: James MalcolmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Annual Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Food
Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and FoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture and Food
Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and FoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Consists of individuals reports of each of the branches of the department.
Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, for the Province of Ontario
Author: Ontario. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Consists of separately paged reports of bodies related to the Dept.
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